[notes] Scroll Less; Read, Write, and Compose More

An utterly predictable report from the field.A couple weeks ago, frustrated by the extent to which I was finding focus once again very hard to come by, I deleted a bunch of apps from my phone. This is — obviously — not a novel idea. Many people have done this dance. I report here simply that by deleting the following from my phone, my temptation to look often at it throughout the day has plummeted: Mail A feed reader1 Strava My temptation has not fallen to zero, of course. I can still log into social media via their mobile websites on Safari (though I may just go ahead and perma-block these for myself on my iPhone, too). But it has fallen significantly, and the results have been very good for me. Now, reading my email or catching up on RSS feeds is not a killing-time or an early-in-the-day thing I do easily and thoughtlessly. It is something I go to my laptop to do actively and consciously. It is a task rather than an ongoing habit. That goes double for Strava, because its web app is…

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